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...7-29. Attendees will include many of the original explorers who first discovered these bubbling hot areas surr...with in our own deep oceans may also represent the explorers of the future searching for life in outer space," German said. Meeting Details The meeting wil...

...has confirmed what island biologists and seafaring explorers have long observed: Animals on islands are much more abundant than their counterparts on the mainland. Besides confirming that longstanding observation, the study signals an alarm for island populations in a rapidly warming world. It suggests that ...

...d States or Europe. The question is, Why?" While explorers to these tropical regions long ago recognized this increased diversity over more temperate regions, the general understanding among ecologists about this striking difference continues to be very limited. "Given that we are far off from knowing the ...

...d and evolved over time, working with a network of explorers and scientists to increase awareness of the systems scientific value. "We brought this place into international recognition with the cave community and now with the scientific community," said Gary. "People in cave diving knew it was there because ...

...ely. Now it has yielded secrets to some 52 marine explorers who accomplished the seabed's first comprehensive biological survey during a 10-week expedition aboard the German research vessel Polarstern. While their families at home in 14 countries were enjoying New Year's dinners, experts on the powerful iceb...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- As the world's first explorers branched away from humanity's birthplace in east Africa some 65,000 years ago, distinct mutations accumulated in the DNA of each population, essentially providing a genetic trail for modern researchers to follow. Recently some scientists have raise...

...ngly clear that many more discoveries await marine explorers for years to come," says Fred Grassle, Chair of th...ing 2006, a 1.8 kg (4 lb) rock lobster that Census explorers found off Madagascar may be the largest. Named Palinurus barbarae, the main body spans half a mete...

...ry links between reptiles and birds, three British explorers set out in 1911, pulling sleds through the unending blackness and almost unbearable cold of an Antarctic winter, to reach the penguins' nesting grounds at Cape Crozier to collect their eggs. An account of the expedition, "The Worst Journey in the Wor...

...ent" first became obvious as early naturalists and explorers returned from expeditions with more and more new species. Today, scientists estimate that there are over 10 times more species in the tropics than in the arctic, and several times as many as in temperate regions, Valentine said. "What we were really...

...oup of MacArthur Fellows--about their character as explorers and pioneers at the absolute cutting edge. These are people pushing boldly to change, improve, and protect our world, to make it a better place for all of us," said Daniel J. Socolow, Director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. According to Bruce H....

...irectorate. ExoMars profits from current robotic explorers As the next generation of robot, ExoMars will profit from lessons learned from the current generation, including NASA's Mars Explorer Rover (MER) mission, including the need for improved locomotion ability, improved local terrain sensing to avoi...

... 2, 2006, in one of the Congress highlights, space explorers and earth-bound medical experts will examine the links between immobility and bone health at the Bone Research in Space Symposium. Canadian physician and astronaut Dr. Dave Williams, who is the first Canadian to have lived in both the ocean and space...

... Lake Ontario and the Atlantic Ocean--giving human explorers their first glimpses of some all-but-forgotten ves...rea from the Niagara River to Oswego accessible to explorers such as Scoville. But they're not easily found, Scoville says. Even after they're located, they can'...

...dustrial Revolution began about 1750. "Whalers and explorers noticed what looked like pollution and couldn't fi...er sources in cities. The Arctic haze, noted by explorers more than 200 years ago, resembles that seen during winter inversions in the Salt Lake City area. Bo...

...ce his team identifies Martian caves, robotic cave explorers will be developed to search for life under the Martian surface. His second project involves developing procedures for rapidly inventorying cave biodiversity. He has applied these methods to caves throughout northern Arizona and Belize. He will be app...

...mmals, fish and birds that were collected by early explorers such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Today the herbarium houses more than 1.3 million plants from around the world, including some of the oldest plant specimens in North America, and continues to grow with new additions of both type and genera...

...n Berlin last December. Currently four orbiting explorers are scanning the surface of Mars in ever more detail, including Europe's own Mars Express, while on the Red Planet itself two NASA rovers are due to be joined in 2013 by ESA's ExoMars rover. The ExoMars mission will take Mars exploration and the sear...

.... Early experiments used "chair rest," since space explorers were strapped in a chair. "But once men started coming back from space it was obvious the cardiovascular system was significantly impacted by the microgravity environment, and physiologists realized they needed a way to model this in the gravitation...

...fornia pioneer, at San Francisco Bay in 1833 When explorers and pioneers visited California in the 1700s and e...other wildlife rebounded only after early European explorers came into contact with natives, infecting them with fatal diseases such as smallpox, malaria, and in...

...llenge has been adapting these methods for robotic explorers to use." "Earth is the laboratory for future discoveries on Mars. Without examining Earth's extreme environments, we wouldn't understand how processes worked to shape the landscape, chemistry and life at the limits. Without that understanding, we c...

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